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In Nigeria’s last primary rainforest, the drill monkey is rapidly losing its home. As the walls close in, one group of conservationists are about to attempt the largest captive primate release ever. The Drills of Afi ...

Acid in the Gulf of Maine
A short animation about the potential impact of ocean acidification on sea life in the Gulf of Maine. Produced with support from Maine Sea Grant, Dalhousie University, MEOPAR (Marine Envi...

Researchers at Kenyan universities were faced with a problem: the weather forecasts that they were providing weren’t being taken seriously. Faced with climate change and climatic extremes, farmers were losing crops an...

Stewardship with Vision is a series of short films profiling conservation-minded landowners in the American West. The third episode of the series is focused on Colorado cattle rancher Betty Shahan, and how her conserv...

In Pursuit of Plastics follows the transatlantic expedition of The Ocean Cleanup as they sail through the North Atlantic Gyre aboard the S/V Sea Dragon to collect data on vertical plastics distribution. The Ocean Clea...

More than fifty years after the construction of the Glen Canyon dam, the dam's existence remains a sensitive subject especially to those fortunate enough to have seen the canyon before it was inundated. Today, pressur...

TRANSISTORS is a short animated film about the history and science of the tiny devices that brought about the Information Age. You interact with billions of transistors in your phones and computers every day, so why n...

A man with a mustached (Robert Sams) mysteriously emerges from the ocean with a briefcase on his way to deliver a report about the four Marine National Monuments of the Pacific Ocean. But his report is anything but or...

This second episode of a 2-part series on Montana's owls gets up close and personal! Distill Productions follows along with the team at the Owl Research Institute as they trap and tag Boreal, Northern Sah-wet, and Sho...

After over 15 years of wrangling over the use of snowmobiles in
Yellowstone National Park, all parties have finally come to an agreement!
This short film reveals the magnificence of Yellowstone in the winter - only
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Hunting the Horned Horse is an animated conservation film about poaching and extinction that uses unicorns as an allegory for real animals. It is a fun critical thinking experience that combines science with magic.

Biologists Julie Cunningham and Dave Pac discuss the long-term research on mule deer in the Bridger Mountain Range of Southwest Montana, showing that ecological processes are often more complex than many people think.

Liminal not only explores seal folklore, it provides background information on the common and grey seal, and how folklore is a global subject that can reconnect people back to landscape.
Liminal is a 10 – 15 minute...

"Extreme Oasis" will introduce you to two alien worlds where organisms called "extremophiles" survive in some of the least hospitable conditions on the planet! Dr. Anna-Louise Reysenbach of Portland State University, ...

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Now in its 11th season, LifeOnTERRA is the award-winning sci­ence and nat­ural his­tory pod­cast series that explores the natural connections that propel life on Earth. Overseen by graduate students in the MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program at Montana State University, TERRA distributes independently produced science, nature, and environmental films. We are proud to bring you these unique stories from around the globe that celebrate the wonders of the natural world.

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